The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver

Post by DyslexicAtheist » Tue, May 15, 2018, 7:29 AM UTC

fjsolwmv wrote: post #48

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #36

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I was a Commercial Diver moving into Life Support Technician/ Superviser work. Then got a lot of free time (the mentioned boredom) so started getting into Linux, Scripting, C, ... then wrote a program that would implement the Oceaneering Manual in code (how much gas do you need for a 30 day job with 6 divers in a chamber, how much soda for the CO2 scrubbers, if they work on 500 ft and live at 470 ft and you do X numb…

You're in good company. Linus Torvalds wrote https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_(software)

Post by GordonS » Tue, May 15, 2018, 7:36 PM UTC

vertex-four wrote: post #55

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It appears to be well paid. And as a kid that grew up poor if the choice was 3 weeks of parental non contact or mayonnaise sandwiches for dinner, well see you in a few weeks, mom!

There's a lot of training involved in going offshore, and if you're able to go through training to get out of poverty, there's a hundred other careers to go for that don't involve multiple weeks away from family.